(2022-11-26). UN Climate Conference Agrees on Fund to Address Climate Change Impacts in Developing Count. indybay.org COP27 Agreement Asserts Climate Change Results in High Debts and Development Failures…
(2022-11-25). Save The Planet — Nicaragua And The Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org Under the slogan Uniting the world to tackle climate change, the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which will be held in Glasgow (UK) from 1 to 12 November 2021, will bring together representatives of some 200 governments with the aim of accelerating climate action to fulfill the Paris Agreement. The Presidency of the conference is already working with civil society and business to prepare the annual event and inspire climate action ahead of the event. | What is COP: | The Conference of the Parties or COP is the supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
(2022-11-25). Raging Wars, Soaring Hunger Put Women and Girls in Crosshairs, Warns UN. commondreams.org "A toxic mix of crises—conflicts, climate, skyrocketing costs, and the ripple effects of the Ukraine war—are inflicting a devastating toll on the forcibly displaced. This is being felt across the world, but women and girls are particularly suffering."
(2022-11-25). Carbon Bombing the Climate Must End. commondreams.org We cannot tackle climate change, and save our collective future, while increasing military spending.
(2022-11-25). Greta Thunberg Joins 630+ Young People in Landmark Climate Lawsuit Against Sweden. commondreams.org "The Swedish state fails to meet the constitutional requirement to promote sustainable development leading to a good environment for present and future generations," said the plaintiffs.
(2022-11-25). Court Rules Against Waratah Coal Mine In Landmark Ruling. popularresistance.org The Queensland Land Court has ruled human rights would be unjustifiably limited by a proposal to dig the state's largest coal mine in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. | First Nations-led activist group Youth Verdict challenged an application by mining company Waratah Coal, owned by billionaire Clive Palmer. | The group of young Queensland activists challenged the mine on the basis it would impact the human rights of First Nations peoples by contributing to climate change. | The coal mine would remove about 40 million tonnes of coal a year for export to South-East Asia, with a forecast life span of 30 year…
(2022-11-25). In Malay, Orangutans Means 'People Of The Forest'. popularresistance.org The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a 'loss and damage fund' for 'vulnerable countries'. However, despite being hailed as a breakthrough, the deal is little more than the financing of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage agreed upon at the COP25 in 2019. It also remains to be seen whether this new financing will in fact be realised. Under previous agreements, such a…
(2022-11-25). Nigeria: The Last War Before the End of the World. libya360.wordpress.com Guadi Calvo The last war before the end of the world has been raging in Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, for at least ten years, between the Muslim majority ethnic group and essentially herdsmen known as Fulani, who fight against Christian farmers, renewing an ancestral conflict that the climate crisis and the war in…
(2022-11-25). Let's rename the day after Thanksgiving 'extinction Friday'. nationofchange.org The annual Black Friday ode to commercialism and overconsumption sits at the core of our ongoing destruction of Earth's ecosystems.
(2022-11-24). We Are Running Out of Time to Use Failing Strategies Against the Climate Crisis. truthout.org
(2022-11-24). COP27 Concludes While the Environmental Crisis Continues. libya360.wordpress.com Abayomi Azikiwe Although a fund to address "damage and loss" was established, still no real commitments were made by the capitalist states to halt environmental degradation and transition to renewable energy sources There were high expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference held in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh. COP27 took place on the…
(2022-11-24). Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance. democracynow.org 
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book "Our History Is the Future," and the historic fight against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock. "This history . is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country," says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.
(2022-11-24). As Settler Colonialism and Genocide Continue, So Too Does Indigenous Resistance. truthout.org Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book "Our History Is the Future," and the historic fight against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock. "This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country," says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: In this special broadcast, we begin the show with the Indigenous scholar and activist Nic…
(2022-11-24). The Struggle To Keep Water Services In The Public Is Only Just Beginning. popularresistance.org Pennsylvania – In early September, the three county commissioners of Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, voted down a $1.1 billion bid from Aqua Pennsylvania to buy their sewer system. This response to an outpouring of citizen concern about what would have been the largest privatization of a public wastewater system in the country illuminates a larger story — both of the encroachment of privatization and the potential for victories when citizens mobilize around its costs. | Aqua had been systematically buying up smaller water systems for years. In New Garden in southeastern Pennsylvania, Bill Ferguson…
(2022-11-24). LA City Councilmember Koretz's Last Call For Aggressive Climate Action. indybay.org Koretz introduced three pieces of aggressive climate legislation: one aimed to ban the sale of new gas cars in stages, beginning in 2028 with the most expensive vehicles to fully implement by 2030; one to create a significant greenhouse gas emissions fee for private jets landing at Los Angeles airports; and one aimed to use the truth of the dangers posed to LAX and Silicon Beach by the SoCalGas Playa Vista Natural Gas Storage facility to shut it down…